Soman is a power noise

Power noise

Power noise is a fusion genre among noise music and various styles of electronic dance music. It should not be confused with "power electronics", which lacks rhythmic elements and is closer to harsh noise...

/techno

Techno

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 act from Germany

Germany

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Biography

Originally, Kolja Trelle worked as sound engineer with Absurd Minds

Absurd Minds

minds is an electronic music group from Germany. It was created by Stefan Großmann and Tilo Ladwig in 1995.- History :The formation of Absurd Minds began in 1995 with Stefan Großmann and Tilo Ladwig . Musically they were inspired by the EBM of the early 1990s...

, Hocico

Hocico

- History :The duo was officially formed in 1993 by Erik Garcia a.k.a Erk Aicrag and Oscar Mayorga a.k.a. Racso Agroyam , but both cousins had been experimenting with electronic music, mixing industrial and EBM, since they were fifteen years old. Their music can be described as electro-industrial...

, and Terminal Choice

Terminal Choice

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, and remixed songs by VNV Nation

VNV Nation

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, Red Sand, and Tom Wax. Trelle signed a record deal with Out of Line for his musical project Soman. Soman's debut album, Sound Pressure, was released in 2003.

In 2005, he released the single "Unleashed", which charted at number one on the German Alternative Charts (DAC).

His second album, Mask, was released in 2007 by Infacted Recordings in Europe and was licensed to COP International for a North American release. The following year saw the release of his third album, Re:Up, on Infacted and COP International.

Soman's debut album was reissued, with bonus tracks, via Infacted Recording for Europe in 2008 and Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

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 for America in 2009, under the title of Sound Pressure 2.0.

For live appearances, Soman supported VNV Nation

VNV Nation

VNV Nation are a British/Irish electronic music band originally from Dublin, Ireland and Essex, United Kingdom and now based in Hamburg, Germany. They combine elements of electro-industrial, trance, synthpop and electronic body music . The members are Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson...

 on their Matter + Form

Matter + Form

Matter+Form is the fifth full-length album by futurepop artists VNV Nation. It was co-engineered by German trance DJ Humate and released on April 12, 2005. "Chrome" was released as a one-track single on 7 March.-Track listing:...

 tour in 2005, as played at WGT and M'era Luna Festival

M'era Luna Festival

The M'era Luna is a festival of goth, metal and industrial music. It is held annually on the second weekend of every August, in Hildesheim, Germanyat Flugplatz Hildesheim-Drispenstedt, a former British Army airbase....

 in 2006. In August 2007, he appeared at the Infest Festival

Infest (festival)

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 in Bradford, England. He has worked with alternative artist Lahannya

Lahannya

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Discography

• Sound Pressure (2003)
• Revenge (EP, 2004)
• Unleash (Single, 2005)
• Mask (2007)
• Re:Up (2008)
• Noistyle (2010)

External links

• Official website
• Soman at MySpace
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• Soman at Discogs
  Discogs
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